Can Anyone Post a List of the Murder Capitals? (crime rate, murder)

[gogetta]

from past years for the USA??? Anyone? Thanks!

[tonygeorgia]

2008 FBI Crime report

Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, 2008 (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/08aprelim/index.html - broken link)

City - Murders

Bmore- 234
Detroit- 306
St Louis- 167
Phoenix-167
Oakland-115
Atlanta-105
Jacksonville-112
Vegas-120
Chicago-510
Memphis-137
Dallas-170
San Antonio-116
NYC-496
La-384
Philly-331
Houston-294

[At1WithNature]

By what, total murders or per capita?????????????????????????

[gogetta]

Originally Posted by At1WithNature

By what, total murders or per capita?????????????????????????

Murder Capital is usually crowned for per capita so that is what I am looking for and to joe2000 what the hell list is that? Also I am not looking 4 last years...I am looking for all the Muder Caps from past years.

[gogetta]

Maybe I should have made it more clear in my thread. There is one muder capital per year, I am looking for the one city that was the murder capital by year. 1990, 1991, 1992, etc..

[nature's message]

Here's a list of cities that I know have received the name of murder capital in the past.


New Orleans
Atlanta
Washington, D.C.
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
New York City

That's all I can think of.

[BPerone201]

Major cities.. or just any towns or cities in general?

I know New Orleans, Detroit, and Camden are in the top running.

[Hillrunner]

IN 2007 I BELIEVE pHILLY WAS #1.

[bluebeard]

Note that it always depends how you format the measurements of the "capitals". Are you including just the city limits, or the whole metro area? What is the minimum size of the city or metro area that you can include? Etc...
Anyway, google is fun.:
2005 Murder Rate in Cities — Infoplease.com
City Crime Rankings by Population Group
United States cities by crime rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Table 6 - Crime in the United States 2007 (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_06.html - broken link)

[BelieveInCleve]

I don't know if there is any list like that, I haven't seen one yet.

This is a list of cities that I know or am pretty sure were the US murder capital in the past:

New Orleans
Detroit
Compton
Cleveland
St. Louis
Miami
Los Angeles
NYC
Chicago
Gary
Youngstown
Newark
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Camden
East St. Louis

I've heard people say the murder capital is just the city with the most murders, which doesn't make sense because than the largest cities would be the murder capital every year. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be about per capita murder rate. And then theres the confusion over size, some people only include the larger cities and don't count smaller ones like Camden or East St. Louis. A lot of confusion around this I've noticed.